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Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change

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Template:Wildlife of India The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC) is an Indian government ministry. The ministry portfolio is currently held by Bhupender Yadav, Union Minister of Environment, Forest and Climate Change.[3]

Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change
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Agency overview
Formed1947 (1947)
JurisdictionGovernment of India
HeadquartersIndira Paryavaran Bhavan, Jorbagh Road, New Delhi[1]
Annual budget₹3,100 crore (US$360 million) (2020-21 est.)[2]
Ministers responsible
Agency executives
  • C.K. Mishra, IAS, Secretary (EF&CC)
  • Sanjay Kumar IFS, Director General of Forests and Special Secretary
Websitewww.moef.nic.in

The ministry is responsible for planning, promoting, coordinating, and overseeing the implementation of environmental and forestry programmes in the country. The main activities undertaken by the ministry include conservation and survey of the flora of India and fauna of India, forests and other wilderness areas; prevention and control of pollution; afforestation, and land degradation mitigation. It is responsible for the administration of the 1947 national parks of India.

The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change is the cadre controlling authority of the Indian Forest Service (IFS), one of the three All India Services.

HistoryEdit

Environmental debates were first introduced into the national political agenda during Indira Gandhi's first term as Prime Minister of India. The 4th Five-Year Plan (1969–74), for example, proclaimed "harmonious development [...] on the basis of a comprehensive appraisal of environmental issues." In 1977 (during the Emergency) Gandhi added Article 48A to the constitution stating that: "The State shall endeavour to protect and improve the environment and to safeguard the forests and wildlife of the country." The same decree transferred wildlife and forests from state list to concurrent list of the constitution, thus giving the central government the power to overrule state decisions on that matter. Such political and constitutional changes prepared the groundwork for the creation of a federal Department of Environment in 1980, turned into the Ministry of Environment and Forests in 1985.[4] Although tackling climate change was already a responsibility of the ministry, its priority was raised when in May 2014 the ministry was renamed to the current title of Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change.[5]

OrganisationEdit


List Of MinistersEdit

No Name Portrait Term of office Party Prime Minister
1 Rajiv Gandhi   31 December 1984 22 October 1986 1 year, 295 days Indian National Congress Rajiv Gandhi
2 Bhajan Lal 22 October 1986 14 February 1988 1 year, 115 days
3 Ziaur Rahman Ansari
(Independent Charge
till 25 June 1988) 		14 February 1988 02 December 1989 1 year, 291 days
4 V. P. Singh   02 December 1989 23 April 1990 142 days Janata Dal V. P. Singh
5 Nilamani Routray   23 April 1990 10 November 1990 201 days
6 Maneka Gandhi
(Independent Charge) 		  21 November 1990 21 June 1991 212 days Samajwadi Janata Party (Rashtriya) Chandra Shekhar
7 Kamal Nath
(Independent Charge) 		  21 June 1991 15 September 1995 4 years, 86 days Indian National Congress P. V. Narasimha Rao
8 Rajesh Pilot
(Independent Charge) 		  15 September 1995 16 May 1996 244 days
9 Atal Bihari Vajpayee   16 May 1996 01 June 1996 16 days Bharatiya Janata Party Atal Bihari Vajpayee
10 H. D. Deve Gowda   1 June 1996 29 June 1996 28 days Janata Dal H. D. Deve Gowda
11 Jai Narain Prasad Nishad   29 June 1996 21 February 1997 237 days
12 Saifuddin Soz   21 February 1997 19 March 1998 1 year, 26 days Jammu & Kashmir National Conference H. D. Deve Gowda
I. K. Gujral
13 Suresh Prabhu   19 March 1998 13 October 1999 1 year, 208 days Shiv Sena Atal Bihari Vajpayee
14 T. R. Baalu   13 October 1999 21 December 2003 4 years, 69 days Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
(9) Atal Bihari Vajpayee   21 December 2003 09 January 2004 19 days Bharatiya Janata Party
15 Ramesh Bais

(Independent Charge)

  09 January 2004 22 May 2004 134 days
16 A. Raja   23 May 2004 15 May 2007 2 years, 357 days Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam Manmohan Singh
17 Manmohan Singh   15 May 2007 22 May 2009 2 years, 7 days Indian National Congress
18 Jairam Ramesh
(Independent Charge) 		  28 May 2009 12 July 2011 2 years, 45 days
19 Jayanthi Natarajan
(Independent Charge) 		  12 July 2011 21 December 2013 2 years, 162 days
20 M. Veerappa Moily   21 December 2013 26 May 2014 156 days
21 Prakash Javdekar
(Independent Charge) 		  26 May 2014 05 July 2016 2 years, 40 days Bharatiya Janata Party Narendra Modi
22 Anil Madhav Dave
(Independent Charge) 		  05 July 2016 18 May 2017 317 days
23 Dr. Harsh Vardhan   18 May 2017 30 May 2019 2 years, 12 days
24 Prakash Javdekar   30 May 2019 7 July 2021 2 years, 38 days
25 Bhupender Yadav 7 July 2021 Incumbent 3 years, 325 days

Ministers of StateEdit

Ministers of State in the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change
Minister of state Portrait Political party Term Days
Mahesh Sharma   Bharatiya Janata Party 3 September 2017 30 May 2019 634 days
Babul Supriyo   30 May 2019 7 July 2021 769 days
Ashwini Kumar Choubey   7 July 2021 Incubment 1421 days

InitiativesEdit

In August 2019 Ministry of Environment released the Draft National Resource Efficiency Policy. It is a set of guidelines which envisions a future with environmentally sustainable and equitable economic growth. The policy is guided by principle of reduction in primary resource consumption; creation of higher value with less material through resource efficient circular approach; waste minimization; material security and creation of employment opportunities and business model beneficial to cause of environment protection and restoration.It was based on the report of NITI Aayog and European Union titled, The strategy on resource efficiency. The policy seeks to set up a National Resource Efficiency Authority with core working group housed in the Ministry. It also plans to offer tax benefits on recycled materials and soft loans to set up waste disposal and material recovery facilities.[8][9]

ReferencesEdit

  1. ↑ "Contact Us | Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change Government of India". Moef.gov.in. 31 July 2015. Retrieved 16 June 2016.
  2. ↑ "MINISTRY OF ENVIRONMENT, FORESTS AND CLIMATE CHANGE DEMAND NO. 27 : Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change" (web). Indiabudget.gov.in. Retrieved 16 August 2018.
  3. ↑ "Following Anil Daves death, Dr Harsh Vardhan gets additional charge of environment". Indiatoday.intoday.in. Retrieved 16 August 2018.
  4. ↑ Sanjeev Khagram (2004) "Dams and Development", New York, Cornell University Press, ISBN 978-0-8014-8907-5
  5. ↑ "Ministry of environment and forests undergoes a nomenclature change". The Economic Times. 28 May 2014. Retrieved 4 December 2016.
  6. ↑ "About ENVIS".
  7. ↑ "Tropical Botanic Garden and Research Institute | Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change Government of India". Envfor.nic.in. Retrieved 16 June 2016.
  8. ↑ "Comments called for on the Draft National Resource Efficiency Policy Released". Press Information Bureau. Retrieved 10 September 2020.
  9. ↑ "EU-India joint declaration on resource efficiency and circular economy(PDF)". Consilium.europa.eu. Retrieved 10 September 2020.

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